We know, but a big part of the people who arrive are ‘luck seekers’ as we call them. People who don’t really have the right for asylum, so they end up throwing away their documents, coming illegally and end up in that process. Usually this are the people who cause the most troubles aswel, usually young men from North-Africa.
I think that most Europeans will agree that it’s a lot better to have a good process for workers coming here with a Visa and harder rules against illegals. But somehow the illegals are here and motivated people like you can’t come in a legal way, or at least have many difficulties.
So strange said it would be more beneficial to you saying that you’re a political refugee for your regime, entering the Union in a illegal way and basically demanding support from the government, than the legal way where you genuinely show that you’re willing to contribute to society.
It’s a bit less here, had to Google it but it’s €53,000 per year. And more or less the same that is happening in the US, where there isn’t enough room so the governments had to book hotels.
The problem is that the rules are so weird, people who arrive in that way aren’t able to work for quite some time, so they end up in limbo just hanging out on the street.